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WotD: Dog-tired
You’re not worth your salt these days unless you’re dog-tired.
Everyone is always so busy running around doing all sorts of errands and extracurricular activities that they have no time for sleep.
Did you know that most people are not getting enough sleep?
When we’re dog-tired, we’re extremely tired or worn out.
We’re so busy doing everything we think we should be doing, but we don’t make time to do the best things for ourselves.
It makes no wonder we’re all dog-tired, running on fumes and too tired to fall asleep at night.
When we’re dog-tired, we’re extremely tired or worn out.
Think about one of those Iditarod dogs after they’ve finished for the year.
That’s what a dog feels like when it’s tired. Living in countryside Japan, I don’t experience the hustle and bustle of the big cities.
Lucky for me.
It’s common for the Japanese to fall asleep on the train while commuting home.
When I lived in Osaka, I often saw office workers asleep on the station platform while waiting for their train.
That’s not good. Too much work and not enough sleep is a bad combination.
The extended 10-day Golden Week vacation was this month.
Well, if we think about it, it was a Golden Week and a Half, but we won’t fight about that now.
Many people are so dog-tired from daily life that they take advantage of the holidays to catch up on their sleep, which is impossible to do.
You can never catch up on lost sleep, just as you cannot bank oversleeping.
This hustle and bustle lifestyle doesn’t stop during the holidays in Japan.
People continue to rush around, trying to fill their holidays with things to do.
It’s so bad that after the holidays, they’re even more dog-tired than when the holidays began. Go figure.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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